Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:40 pm PST
Post subject: Dave Scott quintet at LACMA/jazz, 7/25/03


Bruce Friedman and I went to hang out at LACMA jazz this day -- Bruce had taken a few lessons from Scott some time ago when Scott was teaching at USC. We were sitting back a bit so the sound was a little precarious and there was noise from people talking, but what I heard I liked a lot (I hadn't heard Scott before).

It's basically modern/avant jazz with a heavy (and fondly acknowledged) debt to Wayne Shorter (of the Nefertiti-era Miles Davis quintet) -- very modernistic and angular, but still lyrical in many ways. I loved the compositions. Also, they wandered out to pure free improv a good number of times. The group had big local jazz names: Theo Saunders on piano, Jim DeAngelo on bass, David Hopper on drums, Rob Lockhart on sax.

Excellent group, good music, sound reinforcement could have been better...